"... a seminal study of early 19th-century American Methodist theology and piety. It also presents an innovative and supple model for analyzing 19th-century religion in general." --Christian Century "... an immensely insightful, probing, sophisticated, provocative essay of Methodism in transition... " --The Journal of Religion "... a provocative contribution to revisionist interpretations of the history of American Methodism" --Methodist History "A...